#Fact1As of 2016 she is the 7th earliest surviving recipient of a Best Actress Oscar nomination, tied with Sophia Loren and behind only Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Caron, Carroll Baker, Joanne Woodward, Shirley MacLaine and Doris Day. She was nominated in 1961 for The Hustler (1961).2Met Tony Curtis, Marsha Hunt and Julie Adams, when the four were all under contract at Universal in 1949.3Began her career as a contract player with Universal in 1949.4Guest starred on the first episode of Matlock (1986).5Her hobbies are: nature, art, drawing, painting, and collecting rocks.6Her idol was Jane Withers.7Before she was a successful actress, she starred in her first play.8Along with Sherry Arlene, Laurie was also placed in a children's home.9Grew up in a traditional Jewish house with Hebrew lessons at the synagogue, although she doesn't attend anymore.10Before she was a successful actress, she won a grand prize for a screen test at Warner Bros.11Began acting when she was 11.12Had suffered from severe anxiety disorder during her early childhood, as did her sister.13Had changed her name from Rosetta Jacobs to Piper Laurie, when she wanted to become an actress.14Her sister, Sherry Arlene Jacobs, died in 2006.15Prior to Laurie's birth, her sister Sherry Arlene Jacobs had bee afflicted with asthma, a disease her sister had, since birth. She and her parents were so concerned that at one point they loaded Piper and Sherry onto a bus and went to Arizona, to see if the climate would help Sherry Arlene's asthma. Unfortunately, it didn't.16Her family lived in Arizona, in a shack on the desert, temporarily.17After Ronald Reagan's divorce from Jane Wyman, Laurie had a very serious relationship with him. She was 21 years his junior.18She inherited her sense of humor from her parents; though she inherited her father's face.19While working at Universal, they tore up her contract three times, to give her more money, in extending the time. She made a mistake by signing a contract, when she didn't need to.20Her acting mentor was the late Ronald Reagan.21Her paternal grandfather knew that his surname "Yakobovich" was too long and too difficult, so he changed his surname to "Jacobs", before his granddaughter was born.22After Laurie was born, she was upstairs in the back of the house, being delivered by a male midwife.23Met Ronald Reagan, in 1949, aged 17, while she was studying acting, consistently.24Her father was a Polish Jewish immigrant. Her mother was born in Pennsylvania, to Russian Jewish parents.25Lost the co-starring role in Elmer Gantry (1960) to Shirley Jones.26Graduated from Los Angeles High School in Los Angeles, California, in 1950.27After her divorce from Joe Morgenstern, she relocated from New York City, New York, to Los Angeles, California, where she has been living since 1981.28Was screen-tested for the role of Laurey in Oklahoma! (1955), but lost the role to an unfamiliar actress Shirley Jones.29Acting mentor and friend of Sissy Spacek.30In November 2008 she attended an event at the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre marking the 50th anniversary of the untimely passing of actor Tyrone Power. Four of his films were screened: Love Is News (1937), The Mark of Zorro (1940), The Razor's Edge (1946) and Nightmare Alley (1947). Also in attendance were his children, Tyrone Power Jr., Taryn Power and Romina Power, and other actors who worked with him, including Coleen Gray, Terry Moore and Jayne Meadows.31In her 2011 autobiography, "Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir", she revealed that she lost her virginity to Ronald Reagan during the time they were filming Louisa (1950) together. Reagan was in his 40s, while Laurie was still in her teens; in the movie, Reagan plays her father.32In her 2011 autobiography, "Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir", she revealed that she and Mel Gibson had a one-night stand while working together on the movie Tim (1979), despite their almost-25-year age difference and the fact that she was married at the time.33Brief social connection to G. David Schine (1927-96), the hotel heir and staff assistant to the notorious Sen. Joseph McCarthy. When Schine was drafted into the Army, McCarthy and Schine's staff colleague Roy Cohn unsuccessfully sought to exert their influence to get him a commission as an officer, which he was not qualified for. This led to a congressional investigation and the 1954 televised Army-McCarthy hearings.34Along with Sissy Spacek, Sigourney Weaver, Jodie Foster, Kathy Bates, Ruth Gordon, Toni Collette, Patty McCormack, Eileen Heckart, Nancy Kelly, Jodie Foster, Janet Leigh, Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, and Glenn Close, she is one of the few actresses to have been nominated for an Oscar for a performance in a horror movie.35In Italy, almost all her films were dubbed by Rosetta Calavetta. She was dubbed, albeit briefly by Miranda Bonansea at the beginning of her career; and later on by Maria Pia Di Meo. The talented Fiorella Betti lent her distinctive voice to Laurie in the acclaimed The Hustler (1961).36Starred alongside Sissy Spacek in three movies: Carrie (1976) (she played her mother), The Grass Harp (1995) (she played her sister!), and the TV movie Midwives (2001).37Daughter, Anne Grace Morgenstern (born 1971), with Joe Morgenstern.

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